Understanding Optics with Python

2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-15118-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Multidisciplinary and Applied Optics

This updated edition introduces Python programming language to study basic optics. It discusses most standard topics of traditional physical and geometrical optics through Python and PyQt5. It provides visualizations and in-depth descriptions of Python’s programming language and simulations.

Understanding Optics with Python, Second Edition enables hands-on study of optics through Python simulations. Python was selected for its open-source availability, extensive functionality, and robust online support. The book covers Python 3.x programming essentials, including graphical user interfaces, with downloadable codes on the book's website. It introduces Jupyter, Numpy, and Matplotlib while using numerical simulations to illustrate optical phenomena and experiments, promoting interactive teaching and learning. The book provides an accessible alternative for institutions lacking experimental equipment due to financial constraints, enhancing global knowledge diffusion. Examples are comparable to standard optics textbooks and suitable for self-study or professional reference. Major additions include chapters on matrix methods in geometrical optics (demonstrating efficient ray tracing through matrix computation) and optical system aberrations (covering chromatic and Seidel aberrations plus wavefront aberrations). The polarization chapter has been expanded to include Stokes matrices.

The book is mainly meant for students in optical physics and engineering, researchers, and engineers wishing to use Python simulations to better understand the basic concepts of optics. It also allows professors to provide immediate visualizations of complex ideas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan

Ghalila, Hassen

Ammar, Ahmed

Varadharajan, L. Srinivasa

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lasertechnologie, Holographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction to Python 2 GUI Programming with Python and Qt 3 Electromagnetic Waves 4 Radiometry and Photometry 5 Fermat’s Principle, Reflection, and Refraction 6 Lenses and Mirrors 7 Thick Lenses and Lens Systems 8 Matrix methods 9 Aberration. 10 Apertures and Stops 11 Polarization 12 Interference 13 Coherence 14 Diffraction Appendix A Fresnel Integrals Appendix B Zernike functions

Über Autor(innen)

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan is currently at University of Waterloo, where he is a professor of vision science, physics, electrical and computer engineering and systems design engineering. He has been a KITP Scholar at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, an associate of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and has held research and teaching positions (as well as visiting professorships) at UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi and Madras, the University of Michigan and the University of Missouri amongst others. He is a fellow of a number of professional societies such as the American Physical Society, AAAS, Optical Society of America, SPIE – the International Society for Optical Engineering, Institute of Physics (UK), etc., a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship finalist, and has worked in a number of areas ranging from quantum physics and spectroscopy, to bioengineering, mathematical optics, image processing, optometry, ophthalmology and cognitive science.

Hassen Ghalila is a Professor of Physics in the Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique Moléculaire et Applications (LSAMA) in the Department of Physics - Faculty of Sciences of Tunis - Tunis El Manar University. He received his Ph.D. from Orsay-Paris XI on numerical codes for plasma physics and microwave tubes. Since 2005 he has been the leader of the Experimental and Numerical and Simulations modeling team at LSAMA laboratory. Most of his publications are in topics ranging from laboratory plasma spectroscopy to ionospheric plasma. He is currently the local coordinator of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) program. He is also the general secretary of the Tunisian Optical Society (STO) which is dedicated to outreach program in the field of optics.

Ahmed Ammar has a doctorate in Physics from the University of Tunis El Manar. He is an Assistant professor at ESPRIT School of Engineering, Tunisia. His research focuses on space physics and space weather and he teaches Computational Physics to undergraduate and graduate students.His research focuses on space physics and space weather and he teaches Computational Physics to undergraduate and graduate students.

L. Srinivasa Varadharajan (Rajan) is a Research Scientist at the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India. A physicist turned vision scientist, Rajan studies various low level visual functions using psychophysical techniques. He is a two time recipient of the Best Junior Faculty award at his earlier employments. He was a founding member and the Optics curriculum coordinator for what is now known as the Common Minimum Optometry Curriculum for India (2009) which is used as the gold standard for Optometric education in India.